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China Miéville has won many adult fans for his intelligent & outrageously weird novels like Perdido Street Station, The City & the City, & Embassytown which is currently up for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He also wrote an urban fantasy for middle readers called Un Lun Dun. His new book, Railsea is not so much a retelling as an affectionate parody of that bane of many a high school student's existence, Moby Dick. It is quite literary but playful, with vast molehills of imaginative worldbuilding & lots & lots of ampersands.
Railsea takes place in a distant and unrecognizable future. Humanity clings to survival beneath a poisonous upper atmosphere on rocky outcrops separated by the railsea, an ocean without waves & whales. Endless railroad tracks of mysterious origin loop & crisscross over the soil constantly achurn with enormous burrowing predators. Mr. Miéville has helpfully included his own illustrations of some of these cthonian terrors. How do you feel about naked mole-rats? Now imagine a colony of them, each one the size of a German Shepard & with the table manners of pirhana.
All sorts of trains ply the railsea; driven by steam, diesel, sail, clockwork, or good old-fashioned galley slaves. Some of these salvage buried technology from civilizations long past or incomprehensible artefacts left by alien litterbugs. Other trains hunt the giant moles and other beasts for meat and hides. Captain Abacat Naphi is famous throughout the railsea for her pursuit of the ivory-furred Great Southern Moldywarpe that left her with a cyborg arm and furious purpose. She will sacrifice anything and anyone to find and destroy Mocker-Jack, the Mole of Many Meanings.
Aboard Captain Naphi's moler, the Medes, is Sham Yes ap Shroop, assistant to the wise & gruff train's doctor, Dr. Fremlo (my favorite character). Sham is not satisfied with the excitement and adventure of moling life & moons over how wonderful a career in salvaging must be. After experiencing his first moldywarpe hunt the crew comes upon a wrecked train. On it Sham finds a camera memory card that sets him on a quest as single-minded as his captain's. Sham is physically & socially awkward, simultaneously eager & terrified of the great wide world opening up before him. His new friends, the Shroake siblings bicker constantly in a manner reminiscent of any family roadtrip, yet this brother and sister salvor team are ferociously loyal to each other. The three of them and Captain Naphi are set off to the ends of the railsea seeking to make sense of their impossible world. Nope, nothing allegorical for teens there.
There are tons of brilliant ideas and deep thoughts to be mined here but I never felt beaten over the head and shoulders with A Message. It felt like spending the day with an utterly mad, brilliant, & dear friend playing with his train set. The language & structure are more challenging & weirder than most YA books. Perhaps teens who cut their teeth on Thomas the Tank Engine, then Lemony Snicket & Scott Westerfeld's <em>Leviathan<em> & are ready for something more bizarre & complex have been waiting for a wild ride just like this.
--Reviewed by Chris from our Airport Store (Compass) in Terminal 2 of SFO. You can find him across the hall from the Kiehls! An EVEN longer version of this review was posted on Chris's blog here.
Its been out in England for several years, but Scholastic just released the whole four volume Predator Cities Quartet at the end of May. This first book is spiffing adventure in the vein of Flash Gordon serials or the original Star Wars films. Its a post apocalyptic/steampunk romp through the ruined remains of Europe. The cities that remain are all on wheels, moving around the continent looking for smaller cities to devour in what they like to call Municipal Darwinism. After Londons greatest historian hero brings back something awful and mysterious from the War, Apprentice Historian third class Tom Natsworthy and his companion Hester Shaw traverse Europe trying to get back to London and figure out what is going on. Ages 10+
--Reviewed by Steven from Books Inc. Palo Alto!
Both an exciting tale of intrigue and adventure and a character-driven coming of age story, Icefall is the gripping newest novel from Matthew Kirby. Solveig is the disregarded daughter of a Nordic king. When war threatens their nation, she is sent far away up a fjord along with her brother and sister and some of her father's berserker warriors. As winter descends and the ice locks them in, it becomes clear that there is a traitor in their midst and Solveig must figure out who she can trust before it's too late. Solvieg's struggle with betrayal and fear ends up leading her to a discovery of her own self-worth. Layered in the icy atmosphere of winter and with an unforgettable heroine, this book was one of my favorites.
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ALSO Congratulations to ANNA! (But sad for us.) She will be leaving us soon to go to Library School! Here's to you, Anna, the best future librarian in the country!
I'm not usually into graphic novels, but as soon as I saw Claudette with her cunning smirk on the cover I knew I had to read it. Claudette isn't afraid of anything especially not giants! She sets off to slay a giant with her little brother Gaston (who's not so brave) and her best friend Marie (an aspiring princess). These three go on quite the adventure and find out some things about themselves along the way, and also find out a surprising fact about the giant they're after! Definitely a fun read. (Ages 8+)
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Michael Stefanek, director of behavioral research at the American Cancer Society, said the survey results mirrored other study findings.
"The data is not inconsistent with what we know about women's knowledge and screening practices," he said. "We need to do a better job alerting women that they are at risk for cancer even if they have no family history."
Stefanek noted that U.S. cancer deaths dropped an average 2.1 percent each year from 2002 through 2004 -- double the average 1.1 percent decline seen from 1993 through 2002. This improvement is largely due to better cancer screening and early detection, he said.
Stenfanek also thinks more women need to be screened, and there needs to be greater access to health care so women can get the care they require.
In response to these findings, ACOG will launch on Oct. 29 a new Web site -- Protect & Detect: What Women Should Know about Cancer. The guide is designed to help women, working with their ob-gyns, to take charge of their health and improve their understanding of their risk of cancer -- and the lifestyle steps they can take to cut that risk.
ACOG has also developed new guidelines for colorectal cancer screening. The guidelines recommend that women, starting at 50, receive a colonoscopy every 10 years. Colonoscopy is the "gold standard" for preventing colorectal cancer because of its ability to detect precancerous lesions and remove them during the procedure.
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"To make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world." Matthew 28: 19-20a spells out the task of this mission. We seek to fulfill that mission by becoming an 'inviting, welcoming, nurturing, and serving community of Christ.' We invite you to join us in that endeavor. We eagerly wait to be in ministry with you, sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.
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2015 Annual Church Conference for CSUMC
Sunday, October 4, 2015 11:30 AM
Plan to attend our annual business meeting on Sunday, October 4th, at 11:30 a.m. in our sanctuary to find out where we've been, where we are going as a church community, and how we fit into the Northern Illinois Conference. We will have a chance to hear from our District Superintendent, Rev. Lisa Kruse-Safford as well as vote on some very important items in the running of our church.
2015-16 Holy COW, Church On Wednesday, begins
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 4:00 PM
Holy COW, Church On Wednesday, is back! Plan now to come down to Court Street UMC this Wednesday, September 16th and join in adult studies, dinner for only $3.50 per person, men's group, and our wonderful prayer service in the spirit of Taize. It all begins at 4:00 pm in the church library with Rev. Ray Rhoads leading an adult study, followed with Dinner by Diane in the church dining room at 5:30 pm, and Men's Fellowship in the church parlor at 6:00 pm. Because this is also the 3rd Wednesday of the month, we will also participate in a prayer service in the spirit of Taize, in the chapel, beginning at 7:00 pm. Everyone is welcome--you do not have to be a member to attend any of the activities.
Come Home to Court Street on September 13th
Sunday, September 13, 2015 9:00 AM
You know how schools have their annual fall homecoming where everyone who has ever attended the school is welcomed back for some special events? Well, Court Street UMC is having a fall homecoming on September 13th. Everyone who has every attended anything at Court Street and everyone who has NOT attended anything at Court Street are all encouraged to come "home" September 13th to celebrate and worship God. Beginning at 9 am with Sunday School and ending with a 3 pm Youth Group meeting, there are a multitude of things to do in fellowship with one another. Plan now to join us in worshiping God this special Sunday.
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John Wesley Study to Create Holiness of Heart & Life
(Rockford, IL) IT'S NOT TOO LATE to learn how and why we started as Methodists and what we believe. You may join one of two study sessions or attend both if you wish. One is held Sundays at 11:30 a.m. in the Church Parlor, and the other is held Wednesdays at 4:30 p.m. in the Church Dining Room. However, we will NOT meet in the parlor October 4th because of Church Conference.
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"Salads & More" Lunch to help fund Imagine No Malaria
(Rockford, IL) Please join us immediately after worship service on Sunday, September 27, 2015, for a "Salads and More" luncheon sponsored by Lydia Circle, Nurture Committee, and other church friends. Cost is free-will donation to support raising funds for the Imagine No Malaria Project. Thanks for your support and generosity. We are close to our ultimate goal. Come and learn more about our final push to get there!!
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Rally Day at Court Street UMC
(Rockford, IL) Please join us for a Potluck Lunch in the Dining Room following our Rally Day service on September 13, 2015. Beverages and ice cream for dessert will be provided. Each family should bring their own table service and a dish to pass. Dishes can be dropped off between 9:00 and 10:00am on Sunday, September 13, in the main kitchen. If your last name begins with A - G, please bring salad or vegetable, H - N please bring a side dish, O - Z please bring a main dish. If you have any questions please contact Ryanne Ludington. We look forward to seeing you on Rally Day!
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Hello Parents!First things first!FOR GIFFORD ALUMNI, SOME FAMILIES HAVE ASKED ABOUT CHORAL ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOOL. MR. SENZIG AND I ARE RUNNING A 3rd - 6th GRADE CHOIR, A 6th - 10th GRADE CHOIR AND A POKEMON LEAGUE WITH A NON-PROFIT OUTSIDE OF RUSD. FOR MORE DETAILS, SEND ME AN E-MAIL AT firstname.lastname@example.com Choral FamiliesAttached, you will find a variety of items:Choral Sign - up sheet which needs to be filled out and returned IF, AND ONLY IF, YOUR CHILD IS NEW TO THE GIFFORD CHOIRS. There is a waiver on page 2 that would allow us to post pictures and videos of the choir on our music website that we would like ...
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Search Cloud Cult on Facebook and check out the nice things people are saying about our cover of their song Transistor Radio. Share it with your fiends on FB to help the world know about the really cool things Gifford Kids do. If you are logged in to FB here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/CloudCultMusic?fref=nf
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President Lech Kaczynski and his wife spent November 30th to December 7th in Asia, paying official visits to Mongolia, Japan and the Republic of Korea.
Last month, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk stamped his authority on a 91 billion zloty ($31 billion) package to help prevent the Polish economy from falling prey to the rapidly spreading global recession.
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Five stores in South Florida owned by Fred Christensen Enterprises will be rebranded as Action Gator Tire Stores.
Bridgestone Corp. says it has successfully built passenger tires with 100% of its natural rubber-containing components derived from guayule, a desert shrub that grows in arid regions such as the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. The tires were built at the Bridgestone Technical Center in Japan and made from guayule cultivated at the company's Biorubber Process Research Center (BPRC) in Mesa, Ariz.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has dissolved its global alliance with Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd.
Andreoli & Associates Inc. (A&A), a tire and auto service software developer, has released an integration with Northeast/Mid-Atlantic wholesaler Max Finkelstein Inc. (MFI).
Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. has joined Dream It. Do It., a Manufacturing Institute (MI) initiative that aims to enhance the image of careers in manufacturing and address the widening skills gap in the nation's manufacturing workforce pipeline.
As it does every year in its November issue (which comes out in September!), Consumer Reports has published its replacement tire recommendations.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is offering free flat tire repairs in all company-owned Goodyear Auto Service Centers. The Free Flat Repair program began Oct. 1.
Jack Williams Tire Co. Inc. has opened its 35th retail location in Lebanon, Pa. It is the seventh Jack Williams Tire retail store to serve the Central Pennsylvania area.
Only three rounds remain of the 2015 FIA World Rallycross Championship, and the 21 Supercar entry racing on Cooper tires at Istanbul Park (02-04 October) will be sure to put on a show for the fans as the season starts to draw to a close.
Independent Tire Pros dealers from coast to coast are partnering with nonprofit organizations this fall to raise money for breast cancer research.
Fresh from a fourth place finish in the GTLM class at the TUDOR United Sports Car Lone Star Le Mans race at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, TX, Team Falken and its Porsche 911 RSR head to Road Atlanta prepared to threepeat their victory in their class, a very rare, but possible, achievement.
Vipal Rubber Corp. will highlight its DV-RT4 tread and the exclusive treads of its Eco line at the National Transport Conference (Colfecar) Oct. 7 - 9 at the Hotel Las Americas in Cartagena, Colombia.
Winter tire season is around the corner, so for dealers who don't bask in year-round sunshine, it's time to focus on a sales message that will convince your customers they need to invest in winter tires.
Bob Ulrich was named Modern Tire Dealer editor in August 2000. He joined the magazine in 1985 as assistant editor, and has been responsible for gathering statistical information for MTD's "Facts Issue" since 1993.
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The enterprise performance management cloud vendor raises $25 million from Workday and existing investors, opens three offices in Europe and aims to scale.
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Other performance monitoring and management tools tell administrators what problems occurred. Loggly claims that its tool can quickly tell them why the problems happened.
Mentors will be tapped to advise women in skilled technical roles, such as engineering, product management, operations, design, and web development.
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Its audio performance management system will consider more than 500 billion song performance this year alone, to figure out relevant royalties.
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TransLattice addresses the need for always-on, high performance data management tools that place data close to where it is used or where regulations require.
Zenoss believes that its performance monitoring and management tools should replace the "legacy" tools in use.
The new funding will be used to expand sales and marketing for Tidemark, an enterprise performance management company. Tidemark also partnered with New Relic.
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The HTC One (M8) ticks most of our boxes: design, build and performance are all excellent, there's no app overload, and HTC Sense is improving with every iteration. Battery life could be better and some of the camera tools may seem unnecessary, but overall it's a winner.
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[0001] This application claims priority to provisional application 60/179,296 filed Jan. 31, 2000, entitled "Virtual trading floor system and method."
[0002] This invention relates to an interactive decision support system for monitoring and responding to system and market events displayed within a two dimensional view of a three dimensional system model.
[0003] In connection with managing operations of a trading market, such as the New York Stock Exchange®, it is important for management personnel to be aware of exceptional events relating to business activity. Exceptional events include unusual trading activity in a particular security, or unusual systems activity such overload of system components or component failures. In addition, exchange managers, compliance officers, security traders and analysts have a need for quick and easy access to the enormous volume of data which characterize various aspects of the financial market, such as the real time price and volume of a traded security, as well as outstanding booked orders.
[0004] Accordingly, there has been a need for facilitated access to numerous types of information concerning the trading and systems activity of a financial exchange which allows an individual to investigate detailed aspects of trading and system activity while maintaining watch over the overall activity of the exchange.
[0005] It is an object of the invention to provide a system which permits an operator to assimilate a large amount of information in a quick, easy and intuitive manner.
[0006] It is a further object of the invention to provide a system which facilitates management of a trading floor from a centralized location.
[0007] It is a further object of the invention to provide a system which presents information of varying relative importance in a manner which allows an operator access related to detailed information for investigation while maintaining an overview of major events.
[0008] It is further an object of the invention to provide an interactive decision support system for monitoring and responding to system and market events as they occur using a two dimensional view of a three dimensional model which facilitates the task of monitoring a large amount of information and provides a ready means for a user to react.
[0009] The interactive decision support system, or three dimensional trading floor system, consolidates the data streams of NYSE® operational activity into one interactive three-dimensional visualization system to allow a user to monitor and respond to systems and stock-related events. The interactive decision support system is a virtual representation of the trading floor that enables operators of the NYSE® to pinpoint complex systems and stock related activity with visual clarity. The operators can drill down to view specific information about specific activities, even inside walls and under the floors of the exchange. The exact magnitude and effect on related or peripheral activities can be recognized and understood at-a-glance and in real time as they occur. Real time data is integrated from several sources to create a visual display that uses three dimensions, animation, colors and geometric shapes to identify business and systems events, thereby creating an environment where information gathering is intuitive. Live and recorded video feeds can be transmitted into the model as the user desires. The interactive support system provides a user with the capability to anticipate and respond to surges in trading activity and to distribute system resources as necessary. Business and system events are inserted into the display and accompanied with English language explanations of the events, recovery times, business impact and user response. The virtual trading floor therefore allows operations staff to make more informed decisions and respond to events at a faster pace than is currently available. In addition, the interactive decision support system provides a user with a means to supervise market activity to ensure and enforce compliance with financial and operational requirements, perform periodic checks on broker's sales practices, and monitor specialist operations.
[0010] Accordingly, a method is provided for displaying data representing the operation of an exchange which includes maintaining data representing a three dimensional model of the exchange's trading area and receiving and maintaining in a computer memory data representing exchange operations. The method generates a two dimensional display representing a selected aspect view of the three dimensional model and including perspective views of some of the surfaces of the model. The method further generates alphanumeric images of selected data representing exchange operations and maps these images onto surfaces of the perspective views.
[0011] The method further provides changing the selected aspect view of the three dimensional model upon a new view being selected by a user. The method generates an additional two dimensional display representing the changed aspect view, and maps the alphanumeric images onto selected ones of the perspective views in the additional two-dimensional display.
[0012] In addition, the method provides portions of the two dimensional display as being selectable and that these selectable display portions are operable so that, when these portions are selected by a user, further data correlated to the selectable display portions is displayed. The method also provides that some of the selectable display portions comprise the perspective aspect views and where further data is correlated to data represented by the alphanumeric images, this data is mapped onto the perspective aspect views.
[0013]FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a system according to the present invention.
[0014]FIG. 2 is an image generated by the FIG. 1 system showing an overhead view.
[0015]FIG. 3 is another image generated by the FIG. 1 system showing an overhead view and multiple drill down windows.
[0016]FIG. 4 is another image generated by the FIG. 1 system showing a drill down detailed view of a virtual trading post.
[0017]FIG. 5 is another image generated by the FIG. 1 system showing a second drill down detailed view of a virtual trading post.
[0018]FIG. 6 is another image generated by the FIG. 1 system showing a third drill down detailed view of a virtual trading post and a thermometer.
[0019]FIG. 7 is another image generated by the FIG. 1 system showing a drilldown detailed view of a thermometer.
[0020]FIG. 8 is another image generated by the FIG. 1 system showing a second drill down view of a thermometer from a top down perspective.
[0021]FIG. 9 is an illustration of how the FIG. 1 system maps data to a surface and converts the surface to a three-dimensional image.
[0022] Throughout the figures, the same reference numerals and characters, unless otherwise stated, are used to denote like features, elements, components or portions of the illustrated embodiments. Moreover, while the subject invention will now be described in detail with references to the figures, it is done so in connection with the illustrative embodiments. It is intended that changes and modifications can be made to the described embodiments without departing from the true scope and spirit of the subject invention as defined by the appended claims.
[0023]FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an interactive decision support system 101 according to the invention. The interactive decision support system 101 comprises data sources 103, data servers 106, data processors 102, and displays 107 to provide a virtual trading floor 201.
[0024] Data sources 103 include internal financial data sources 104, external data sources 107 and internal system data sources 108 which provide both real time and archival data. Data sources generated internally within the Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC) and New York Stock Exchange® (NYSE®) include Consolidated Tape System tickers which provide the old-style stock ticker for current stock trading information; a Market Data Distributor (AMDD) providing numerous stock attributes among other things, and the Wall Board, providing textual news items with screen formatting. External sources of data include ILX, which provides information pertaining to indexes, global information and hot news.
[0025] Each of the data sources 103 provide data representing exchange operations, some live and some historical, in particular formats and at various rates. The data from the market data sources 103 is captured, consolidated and converted into a predetermined format by data normalizing servers 106. A programmed computer or a hardwired machine can perform the function of the data normalizing servers 106. Each market data source 103 can be provided with an associated data normalizing server 106 or the functions of the data normalizing servers 106 can be integrated into a single machine for normalizing the data from the several data sources 103. Each data normalizing server 106 distributes the formatted data to one or more data processors 102.
[0026] Data sources 103 include current market activity, comprising news and financial information such as stock price, stock trading volume, selected historical records, round lots, odd lots, daily average stock volume, trades, volume by size of trade, distribution of trades by trade size, most active stocks, block transactions, member trading, market performance, average quotation spreads, program trading, circuit breakers, trading systems, warrants, consolidated tape activity and off-hours trading among other things. Data sources 103 can include selected stock price trends, such as composite index of selected stock of high capitalization companies, daily closings, growth rates, stock price volatility, yield and P/E ratio, among other things. Data sources 103 can also include information about selected companies such as listing requirements, shares listed, market value, warrants listed, market value leaders, changes in NYSE list, new listings, removals, name changes, stock distributions, and splits among other things. Other data sources 103 can include information about the ownership of corporate entities and information about the investing public, such as total number of shareholders, profiles of shareholders, share ownership by census region, characteristics of adult shareowners, and share ownership highlights among other things. Some data sources 103 can include information about international financial activity such as stock transactions between U.S. and foreign investors, foreign stock prices, indexes, volume in non-U.S. stocks, volume and value of non-U.S. trading, stocks of non-U.S. corporate issuers listed by geographic region, market capitalization of NYSE-listed non-U.S. stocks by geographic region, and stocks of non-U.S. corporate issuers. Data items relating to bonds can be provided by the data sources 103 such as data related to the NYSE fixed income market, bond volume, bond trading records, most active bonds, largest corporate new listings, issuers listing debt, and amortized bond system subscribers among other things.
[0027] In addition, system data sources 108 are provided for supplying data from various internal systems of the actual stock exchange. Each system data source 108 provides data from a domain within the exchange, such as the specialist posts, the trading terminals, the display books, the broker booths, the network support systems and/or other physical devices at the exchange. Each system data source 108 provides data in particular formats and at various rates. The data from the system data sources 108 is captured, consolidated and converted into a predetermined format by data normalizing servers 106 by means similar to those described above.
[0028] The interactive decision support system 101 provides for one or more data processors 102 which receive the formatted data from the data servers 106. Other direct data sources 107, such as video conferencing information, can be provided directly to the data processor 102. Each data processor 102 has the capacity to control one or more other data processors 102.
[0029] Each data processor 102 can be provided with at least one data client 105, a shared memory area 110, a trading floor reconstruction map 113, a texture memory map 111, and a scene graph renderer 112. The data clients 105 receive the formatted data from the data normalizing servers 106 or directly from the other direct data sources 107. Data clients 105 process the formatted data and write the data to predetermined locations in a shared memory arena 110, thereby building tables of data which are updated by the data clients 105 in real time as data is received from the data servers 106. The predetermined locations can represent a classification of data items to reflect the character of the formatted data received and stored in those predetermined locations. The rate at which the tables of data in the shared memory area 110 can be updated and the number of individual events represented by the data received by the data clients 105 is limited in part by the central processing unit speed of the data processor 102. Thus, the frequency with which a data item is submitted to the shared memory area 110 can be limited to a level which provides sufficient meaningful information according to the preferences of the user while avoiding burdening the data processor 102 with unnecessary update operations. Similarly, the number of data items to be accepted by the data processor 102 from the data clients 105 can be limited to prevent the number of data items stored in the shared memory area 110 from growing too large and interfering with the data processors 102 capacity to update data items with the preferred frequency. Accordingly, the shared memory area 110 is preferably populated with only preselected data items representing information of greatest importance to the user.
[0030] Data stored in the shared memory arena 110 is consolidated by the trading floor state reconstruction system 113, which begins a process of transforming raw data into a state associated with a three-dimensional model of the virtual trading floor thereby creating alphanumeric images. The data is written to a texture map memory 111 in a predetermined manner, associating data with texture information. Data in the texture map memory 111 is rendered into a three-dimensional model by a scene graph processor 112 which maps each texture and associated data onto a predetermined grid or grids of a pre-programmed wireframe model of the virtual stock exchange. Viewpoint information from a user input device 114 or control station, such as a keyboard or mouse device, informs the scene graph processor 112 of the viewpoint from which to display the rendered model of the virtual trading floor. Accordingly, the scene graph processor 112 culls and draws an image of the virtual trading floor from the perspective of the viewpoint, which image can be viewed on a display 107. Thus, selected data can be taken to generate alphanumeric images according to the perspective view.
[0031] The interactive decision support system 101 can provide graphical representation of real time data on at least one display monitor 107 which can be located remotely or in an exchange control room located adjacent the actual trading floor of the NYSE. As implemented for the New York Stock Exchange® (NYSE®), the display monitor 107 comprises 9 high resolution flat panel monitors, supplied by Pixel Vision. Nine 25 inch monitors 107 are used to provide a two-dimensional view of a three dimensional model of the exchange trading floor and selected detailed views of the three dimensional model for display of selected data or information in graphic or tabular form. Alternatively, the display monitor 107 can be a single display monitor used to view the virtual trading floor.
[0032] A control station provides a user input 114 to select an aspect view and control the images displayed on the display 107. The control station can be a client computer at which the user input 114 can direct the scene graph processor 112 to display different levels of detail, from a large scale overview to a "drill down" view of a selected element. The drill down view of an element displayed in the overview is a detailed view of the element which can be provided in a separate window or monitor and has additional information such as data and graphical representations of data not shown in the overview of that element. In addition to use of multiple monitor displays, the control station can direct multiple views within a single monitor display 107. The views of an element to be provided upon selection by a user can be customized to fit the particular interests of the individual user. Similarly, navigation through the virtual trading floor is provided by the control station, as well as interaction with elements of the trading floor. This will be described later in further detail.
[0033] When a user selects a particular view of the virtual trading floor, coordinate information representing the position, orientation and zoom level for that view is communicated from the user input 114 to the scene graph renderer 112 of the data processor 102. The scene graph renderer 112 processes the request by mapping the appropriate viewpoint information, as mentioned above, and returns to the display 107 the rendered image. It is generally preferable that the three dimensional processing of the image be performed by the data processor 102 since the computations required for rendering the image generally require sophisticated and substantial processing and therefore can be preferable to center such processing power at the data processor or server side such as the Silicon Graphics super-computer which can be tailored to this task. In other instances it can also be preferable that the scene rendering be performed on the server side where the rendering requires sophisticated processing or when the same scene information can be distributed to a number of client machines located at the user input 114, thereby saving overall processing power by processing the scene once at the server and distributing the scene to all clients requesting common display images. For example, the data processor 102 can continuously consolidate and summarize the formatted data to produce distilled states of the market and of different elements in the market and which can be readily called upon by client requests. In addition, the data processor 102 can perform data mining and anticipate client requests for analysis of exceptional events. One purpose of selective processing is to optimize the resources of the system on which the virtual trading floor is implemented. It can be appreciated that specific choices of selective processing may be varied on a case by case basis depending on the processing power of the central server and the peripheral client machines, as well as the available bandwidth for communicating information from the server to the client, the type of information being sent, and the frequency the data is being updated among other factors.
[0034] Other aspects of the display can be maintained on the client side at the location of the display 107 and user input 114. Information which does not require three dimensional rendering, such as the alphanumeric information that can be provided in the dashboard, can be communicated directly as data to a client side computer at the user input and display for local processing and rendering. For example, time series data can be maintained by the client to be updated by the server and the client can create and update any simple graphs or analysis based on the data. Thus, certain processing can be delegated to the client and save the processing power of the server for specialized tasks. It can be appreciated that other factors can be considered such as the degree to which the individual client machine requires customized display of information.
[0035] The data processor 102 is implemented using several computers including six Silicon Graphics Onyx2 graphics visualization supercomputers utilizing Silicon Graphics Iris Performer for processing the market data and three dimensional graphical representation of data and the virtual trading floor 201 depicted in FIG. 2. FIG. 3 illustrates a composite view 300 of the three-dimensional virtual trading floor 201 and a dashboard 301 which can be shown as a typical large scale view on the display 107. Four supercomputers are located at the NYSE® site to support the three-dimensional model and data flow to the monitors 107 and two additional supercomputers are located at the remote site housing the data servers 106 to support the flow of market data into the interactive decision support system 101.
[0036] The interactive decision support system 101 of the present invention utilizes a computerized three dimensional model of the stock exchange trading floor to provide a vehicle for efficient display of real time data and visualization of all components of a virtual trading floor 201. Specifically, a simplified three dimensional model of the trading floor is maintained in the interactive decision support system 101. Two dimensional views of the model can be provided for display on the monitor 107 such as a nine-monitor composite display for the exchange managers. In the actual trading floor of the NYSE®, trading stations are arranged around the periphery of trading posts, which include electronic displays and terminals to provide order data to traders and to enable floor personnel of members to enter transactions using trading floor terminals. Similarly, the virtual trading floor 201, provides several virtual trading posts 202 each of which represent the centers of trading activity for a number of securities. Also provided on the composite view 300 of the virtual trading floor 201 are a ticker tape displays 203, a background wall 204, facilities 205, several containers 206 and a dashboard 301.
[0037] One or more ticker tapes 203 can be provided as one or more strips which run along three visible panels 207 of the background wall 204. The ticker tape display 203 is a two-dimensional representation of a ticker tape derived from live, streaming data from data sources 103. The ticker tape display 203 can include an alerted stock ticker tape, news ticker tape and/or a selected stock list ticker tape.
[0038]FIG. 4 shows a detailed two dimensional view of a three dimensional model of the virtual trading post 202 for purposes of explaining components thereof. The virtual trading post 202 includes multiple display surfaces 405 on which data, such as the trading symbol of each security traded at the post and the last transaction price, can be displayed. Referring to FIG. 4, it can be seen that each virtual trading post 202 has two post columns 401 and 402, which include display panels 404. The display panels 404 have several display surfaces 405 for security labels 403 corresponding to a security traded at a corresponding trading post on the actual trading floor of the exchange. The display panels 404 in the three dimensional model are arranged vertically around the periphery of each column of the virtual trading post 202, preferably arranged in alphabetical or other logical order.
[0039] In addition, each display surface 404 can be provided with a cap panel 408 at the top. The cap panel 408 functions as an alert to the status of a stock in the corresponding display surface 404. If the status of a stock is exceptional, the cap panel flags an alert by adopting a color and a symbol for the type of alert. If two or more exceptional conditions occur on one panel, the colors and/or symbols of the flag can be shown to alternate. Alerts can be provided to indicate business events that effect individual stocks or stock related by a predefined user group, stock index, industry or industry sub-group, country or geographic area or other event, such as a news headline. Detailed information concerning the alert is accessible to the user by selecting the panel to obtain a drill down view of detailed information.
[0040] Exceptional conditions can include business exceptions and system exceptions. Business exceptions include price, trade, velocity, queue, message, stock not open, stock halted, news and hot news, among other things. System exceptions can include server down, book down, stock down, loss of floor connectivity, and loss of host connectivity, among other things. An operator can click on the display segment to call up information concerning the item selected.
[0041] Exceptional conditions for securities can be set according to several rules defined by thresholds, stock opening, delays or halts in trading, market conditions or particular news. A threshold is the point or points at which certain types of activities or events cause a stock symbol to be flagged with an indicator or icon that describes the class and intensity of the event or activity. Threshold exceptions may be grouped and categorized by price change, such as net price change in absolute value, net percept price change as a measure of relative value, and spread; trade information, such as NYSE® block trades, reported trades, regional trades, and total volume; order velocity and specialist orders to name a few. Exceptions based upon stock opening are indicators of the status of the trading of a particular stock when the market opens at 9:30 a.m. Any stock that does not open appears as an exception on a panel of the associated trading post. At 9:45 a.m. the exception is escalated to a warning and at 10:00 a.m. the exception is escalated again until the stock is opened. Exceptions related to delays or halts in trading relate information about those stocks that have been flagged due to news or order imbalances. Market exceptions reflect implementation of Rule 80a (which restricts index and arbitrage trading when the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 2%) and Rule 80b (which implements "circuit breakers" which halt trading when the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 10%, 20% or 30%). Furthermore, the symbol of a stock with a "hot" news headline can be flagged for a users attention.
[0042] Exception condition flags and display segments of a trading post can be color coded to indicate the nature of the exception condition. For example, a yellow flag and segment color can be used to indicate that trading in a security has not opened. A purple flag can be used to indicate "hot" news with respect to a security. Other colors can indicate a trading halt, an equipment problem, or exceptional trading volume. Access to other information relevant to a particular trading post can be provided by additional panels, such as for order books 404 at the base of the virtual trading post 202. Color coding of display surfaces 405 can be used to provide status information, such as for a particular specialist's book of limit orders. Other information that can be provided by the trading post for quick recognition is shown in FIG. 5, which include a thermometer 501, a queue indicator 502, a T-lock 503, and a activity map 504.
[0043] A thermometer 501 can be provided between the two columns of the virtual trading post 202. FIG. 6 shows a detailed view of the thermometer 501. The thermometer 501 indicates the number of business alerts or exceptions on a trading post 202. A detailed view of the thermometer 501 for a virtual trading post 202 is accessible by selecting the thermometer 501 in the fullfloor view depicted in FIGS. 2 and 3. Indicators for each type of business exception relative to trades, velocity and prices changes move up and down the thermometer relative to the number of securities at the trading post 202 for each type of exception. The area of the thermometer between each indicator and the thermometer can also change color tint. Each type of color tint is relatively transparent so that superposition of different tints can further differentiate the several indicators. Selecting the thermometer in the drill down view depicted in FIGS. 5 and 6 triggers information about the affected stocks to appear in the dashboard 208.
[0044] A queue indicator 502 on the thermometer 501 can be provided to indicate the status of the buildup of order processes at the trading post and moves according to the highest level of queues found on a security at that post. As depicted in FIG. 7, the queue indicator, located at the upper half of the thermometer 501, can differentiate between three queue levels. Separately, the tint of a thermometer 501 can be provided to rise at four different positions to reflect the quantity of other business exceptions at the post. The indicator can remain yellow colored in the drill down view. In addition, the stock symbol of the stock with the highest queue is indicated as well as the number of the actual order queue.
[0045] A T-lock 503 can be provided for indicating a system alert while also monitoring the state of recovery of a system. As the system recovers, the T-lock 503 can provide such an indication by becoming gradually transparent.
[0046] A activity map 504 can be provided to indicate the level of activity of each display panel for a particular stock attribute. As depicted in FIG. 8, the activity map 504 displays a gradient ramp to indicate changes in activity intensity level. As activity at the panel increases, a texture of the complete ramp is mapped at different positions relative to the activity map 504 floor polygon to reveal a more or less intense portion of the gradient. The activity map 504 can display four different portions of the complete gradient texture and can be toggled on or off. Similarly, other features of the virtual trading floor 201 can be toggled on and off to show more or less information for various levels of view. The activity map 504 or meter can be provided to alert a user to business events at a post related to aggregate stock activity. Changes in activity can be represented as a pulsing of the activity meter in the model's floor. Values represented in the activity meter can include total volume, total trades, NYSE block trade spread, net percentage change, net dollar value change, trade velocity and specialist orders. The interactive decision support system 101 can be provided to learn and adjust to normal levels of systems activity and thereby set new thresholds. Movements to and through learned thresholds generate alerts to the user.
[0047] A background wall 204 can be provided with four panels 207, three of which are visible from a three dimensional side view as depicted in FIGS. 2 and 3. The background wall 204 can have at least one ticker tape 203, information panels, streaming video panels, as well as advertizement panels and corporate logo panels. As the three dimensional model is turned, the wall nearest the user automatically disappears, allowing an open view of the trading floor surrounded by the three visible panels of the back wall.
[0048] The system facilities 205 is a three dimensional representation of the layout for the operations systems maintaining the data servers 106. The system facilities 205 are provided behind the rearmost panel 207 of the background wall 204 and can be made visible by dropping the back most panel 207. The facilities 205 graphically represent all the domain elements of the network map. Domain elements can include a specialist book domain in which stock are aggregated into computers, a booth domain in which brokers can be aggregated into containers, as well as host domains in which computers and mainframes can be aggregated, For the model of the New York Stock Exchange®, the facilities are divided into two symmetrical areas representing the two separate physical locations of the two facilities.
[0049] The system facilities 205 are organized by domain in horizontal drawers according to function, e.g., for the display book and specialist book and support systems. Statistics for support systems can include CPU utilization, system resources, status of booth application units and associated trade processes. A status summary of the elements of a drawer can be displayed on the front surface of the drawer. Each domain can be activated by a domain button and slid out as a drawer for a drill down view to a specific element within the domain, i.e. server, etc. This feature of the invention provides for efficient crisis management and day to day monitoring of trading floor activity. The system may also be employed in remote locations for management oversight. Accordingly, the model provides for visualization of alert conditions at systems facilities.
[0050] As depicted in FIG. 3, a dashboard 301 is provided below the three dimensional view of the virtual trading floor 202 and displays two-dimensional numerical and symbolic information of immediate interest to a user. The dashboard 301 can be separated into several categories for detailed lists: a system dashboard 302, a user selected dashboard 303, and a business dashboard 304. In addition, an upper section of the dashboard can perform as a menu bar 305 and a summary bar 306 for summarizing the contents of each of the several dashboards and providing data which can be customized as desired by the user. Portions of the summary bar can popup to provide general information on an item or condition, followed by more detailed information in the dashboards below. Inference and correlation engines can generate information to be provided in the dashboard or in the "drill down" view to reveal relationships between business events.
[0051] The business dashboard 304 can include a business message board and an exceptions list for a quick look of various conditions. The user selected dashboard 303 can include information on a particular thermometer, a queue monitor, business exceptions being tracked, and a window for displaying other information selected by a user. A detailed view of the exceptions list can be invoked by selecting the exceptions list for a drill down view. Selecting a stock in the user selected dashboard can call up a detailed view of the stock information into the three dimensional graphical display area of the virtual trading floor 201 shown in FIGS. 2 and 3.
[0052] The system dashboard 302 can also include a system message board, alert lists and a recovery tank for the recovery status of various systems. The system dashboard can provide an overview and monitoring function by displaying the total number of system alerts displayed.
[0053] Several containers 206 can be provided in the floor area of the interactive system 201 which contain three dimensional graphical information of immediate interest to a user. The several containers 206 can contain information such as facilities status, securities group statistics, as well as market index statistics.
[0054] An index container 309 can be provided for graphically displaying market index statistics in real time. The index container 309 can contain up to four slices, each of them showing a time line and five scale lines which are labeled relative to the scale of the indexes being tracked. As live streaming data is received throughout a trading session, the index ribbons in the index container 309 which can track index information, such as volume or price, proceed from left to right. The index container 309 can be selected for a drill down view to give a user the ability to choose the indexes to be monitored, select the speed of the tracking, change the period of tracking, change the viewpoint, lift index slices and retrieve comparison devices among other things. The user can lift an individual slice from the index container 309 to get a better view of a single index. Current statistics, such as volume or price, can be displayed numerically inside the leading edge of the graph line.
[0055] A group container 308 can be provided for graphically displaying statistics for a group of stocks or other traded items in real time. A group can include items such as stocks in alert condition, indexes, high profile stocks with news, user defined stocks, or stocks within a particular market sector (i.e., industrial), region (i.e., Europe) or country. Statistics for each stock can include volume, net price change, net percentage change, spread, order velocity, order queues, and trade reports. As with the index containers, a detailed view of the group container can be had by selecting the group container and drilling down. In addition, a drawer of characteristics for an individual stock or a slice of characteristics for a group of stocks can be lifted out of the group container for easier viewing.
[0056] Since display surfaces 405 and display panels 404 are located around the periphery of the virtual trading posts 202 to provide information in a three-dimensional format, generally only a portion of the display surfaces 405 and display panel 404 are visible to a user at any one time. Accordingly, navigation and display settings can be provided by a user through a control station 114 or user input to provide dynamic, interactive control of one or more two dimensional views of the three dimensional model.
[0057] The interactive decision support system displays information in a manner which permits the user with a means to investigate detailed information while maintaining an overview of information concerning the major events affecting the trading floor. The large scale view of the three-dimensional model of the trading floor as shown in FIG. 2 provides immediate display of major information such as "hot news", important information about specific traded securities displayed on the consolidated ticker tape, and trading booth status indicators among other things. A display can be provided of a two dimensional view of the three dimensional model of the trading floor that simulates the view from an overhead camera that pans and zooms throughout the three-dimensional model thereby providing a birds-eye view and allowing a user to navigate throughout the virtual trading floor 201. As a user pans and zooms throughout the three-dimensional model, more detailed information can be viewed without losing quick access to the information concerning the major events.
[0058] The user can select an aspect view within the virtual area defined by the large scale view of the virtual trading floor and zoom to a close-up view of the virtual trading floor from the perspective of that point. The operator can further navigate through the virtual trading floor for a close up view of a trading booth without calling up a windowed view of the trading booth and thus the operator can continue to monitor other information peripheral to that particular trading booth. By selecting a particular stock symbol, detailed information about that stock such as corporate name, industry, country group, index member, specialist firm name, last sale data, terminal address among other things, without losing the large scale view. Alternatively, the operator can select the system information portion of the trading post and obtain a detailed "drill down" window of the status of the information systems handling the trading functions of that trading post.
[0059] As a user zooms and pans through the three dimensional space of the trading floor, detailed views of specific items can be viewed in "drill down" mode by selecting the item to be viewed. The "drill down" function is incorporated only into specific portions of the three dimensional model and provides detailed information and access to additional information and options to utilize additional analytic functionality associated with that information. Large scale elements such as the trading posts 202 or the index container can be selected for a drill down view comprising these elements. Small scale elements such as individual panels 405 on the trading posts 202 or individual stocks symbols or exceptional events located on these panels or on the background wall 204 can also be individually selected for drill down view.
[0060] The detailed view shown in "drill down" mode can be a separate window in the display as depicted in FIG. 3 or can be provided in a separate display as depicted in FIG. 4. Once an aspect of the virtual trading floor 201 is selected, such as a trading post 202 or a container having historical information about an index or system information, the specialized data display may be invoked by special command such as command icons listed on the menu bar 305 as shown in FIG. 3 or by using a drop-down list which can be called up with a pointing device. As the operator moves the pointing device over an area of a large scale view which offers a "drill down" option, the pointer can change its visual aspect thereby indicating the "drill down" availability to the operator. For example, after a user has selected a particular trading post in the large scale view "drilled down" to a windowed view of the particular trading post, system displays a detailed view of the trading post with associated financial and system information. The user can then select a particular aspect of the trading post, such as an individual security or system information handled by that trading post, and obtain additional detailed information about that aspect in another "drill down" window. Additional "drill down" views can be made available, such as the order book for a particular security.
[0061] While an operator is viewing various levels of detail through the drill down or zoom function of the virtual trading floor, the operator can continue to monitor specified information specified to be maintained in the dashboard. As the user views information in the three dimensional representation of the trading floor, various types of data can be selected and added to the dashboard for quick reference by special command, such as a drop down list which can be invoked by the pointing device.
[0062] The implementation of the three dimensional model of the trading floor as a database can be done by conventional methods and includes the definition of display surfaces 405. Data, such as alphanumeric, image or graphic data, which is to be displayed on such surfaces in the two dimensional views of the three dimensional model is mapped onto two dimensional surfaces corresponding to a normal view of the surfaces. The two dimensional normal views of the surfaces are then mapped onto a two dimensional projection of the surface of the three dimensional model as depicted in a two dimensional view to be displayed. This process is illustrated in FIG. 9, which shows alphanumeric data 901 being converted to a planar display 902 using conventional character font/display generation technique. The resulting normal image 902 is then mapped into the display segment of the three dimensional model as viewed in a two dimensional image 903, which may require (1) scaling to the image size, and (2) skewing to the image view in both horizontal and vertical directions. In the process, image elemental pixels in two dimensional view 903 are mapped to image elements in normal image model 902 to determine whether the image pixel will be black or white. This creates the illusion of viewing the data on an actual display panel of the three dimensional model. Video or graphic images are similarly mapped, including data relating to image luminance, color and intensity.
[0063] Although the present invention has been described in connection with specific exemplary embodiments, it should be understood that various changes, substitutions and alterations can be made to the disclosed embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
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